Stroking a rabbit whilst they are eating

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lunar6769

Alpha Buck

• Aug 13, 2009

• #1

Is this okay? I worry that it will harass them to be stroked whilst they are eating or is it not bad for them?
They have let me do this - it is not that they won't sit still but I just don't want to upset them.

 

*lily*

Wise Old Thumper

• Aug 13, 2009

• #2

I did this with mine, they were fine

 

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Lib_n_bunny

Wise Old Thumper

• Aug 13, 2009

• #3

They'd let you know if they didn't like it, in my experience. Beau goes MENTAL if you even put your hand near him when he's eating, he grunts and lunges! But the foster girls are so absorbed in eating I think a bomb could go off next to them and they wouldn't be distracted! They don't mind being stroked while they eat at all! Plus if they want to get away they would just pick up the piece of food they were eating and drag it away so they were out of your reach.

 

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lunar6769

Alpha Buck

• Aug 13, 2009

• #4

Thank you for your help.

 

Kermit

Wise Old Thumper

• Aug 13, 2009

• #5

Yeah, as long as they let you its fine....my kermit would have let you do anything to him while he was eating, nothing would have put him off his food!

 

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weeble

Moderator

• Aug 13, 2009

• #6

I am allowed to stroke Dutchie and Bella whilst they are eating but not Chloe and DEFINATELY not Albert

 

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NickieM

Warren Veteran

• Aug 13, 2009

• #7

Mine don't mind at all. Although it depends what they are going for. Sometimes if Wolfie has a particularly juicy bit of cabbage he will grunt if I touch him. I know he doesn't lunge or bite, and if I am feeling a little naughty, I keep stroking him and he grunts in a higher and higher pitch. :lol:

 

bex77

Young Bun

• Aug 13, 2009

• #8

yeah, it depends on the bunny. Fudge doesn't seem to mind it, but I tend to leave him when he is eating.

 

Tamsin

Administrator

Staff member

• Aug 13, 2009

• #9

I would say as long as your not obviously annoying them then it's actually quite a good idea. It helps associate being touched by you with positive stuff (food) so helps make friends

 

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Angie65

Wise Old Thumper

• Aug 14, 2009

• #10

Tamsin said:

I would say as long as your not obviously annoying them then it's actually quite a good idea. It helps associate being touched by you with positive stuff (food) so helps make friends

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I agree - this is how I get a bun used to being touched